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found: Wikipedia, December 5, 2014:Jesse Lee Kercheval (poet, memoirist, translator and fiction writer; born in Fontainebleau, France, to American parents; raised in Cocoa, Florida; she earned a B.A. from Florida State University in 1983 and Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1986; she then taught at DePauw University in Indiana for a year, and has been a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin in Madison since 1987, where she is director of the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing; author of numerous books, notably Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, and The Dogeater)